Multi-scale simulations of plasma with iPIC3D |
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| Authors: | Stefano Markidis Giovanni Lapenta Rizwan-uddin |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 104 S. Wright St. Urbana, IL 61801, USA;2. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road Berkeley, CA 94720, USA;3. Centrum voor Plasma-Astrofysica and Leuven Mathematical Modeling & Computational Science Centre, Departement Wiskunde, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200B, 3001 Leuven, Belgium;4. National Center for Supercomputing Applications, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1205 W. Clark St. Urbana, IL 61801, USA |
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| Abstract: | The implicit Particle-in-Cell method for the computer simulation of plasma, and its implementation in a three-dimensional parallel code, called iPIC3D, are presented. The implicit integration in time of the Vlasov–Maxwell system, removes the numerical stability constraints and it enables kinetic plasma simulations at magnetohydrodynamics time scales. Simulations of magnetic reconnection in plasma are presented to show the effectiveness of the algorithm. |
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| Keywords: | Particle-in-Cell Computational plasma physics Implicit PIC 3D Magnetic reconnection |
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